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olive branch
noun as in peace offering
Example Sentences
The likes of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Barclays are extending an olive branch by taking on additional hires, raising salaries, enforcing no-work-on-Saturday rules and even offering Pelotons, Apple Watches and luxury vacations to employees.
Interestingly, the holder has a USB-C charging port instead of the Lightning port you’ll find on the PowerBeats pro—another little olive branch to Android users who are likely flush with USB-C cables and chargers.
Manchin offered that base something of an olive branch Wednesday — a chance to at least try his approach.
Harry and Meghan would be likely to accept any proffered olive branch, not least because it would be a sound commercial decision.
In 1896, the winners received a silver medal, a certificate and olive branches.
Before “we” might offer “you” an olive branch, you must offer one to us.
It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein took to the op-ed page of The Wall Street Journal to offer an olive branch of sorts.
The Syrian democracy movement and the international community should offer an olive branch to senior officers in the Syrian army.
“The company approached the situation with a club as opposed to an olive branch,” he said.
It seems that Mr. Adams would have presented the sword boldly, keeping the olive branch carefully concealed behind his back.
Burn the male olive-branch and the pine twig and juniper, and let the blazing laurel crackle amid the hearth.
The olive branch held out by the workers after their victory over the Pinkertons has been refused.
The crest of the clan was a mailed hand holding an olive branch, and the motto was "Not too much."
This poem was the olive-branch that Robert was about to snatch from the tomb.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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